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In this lecture temple grandin will draw from her own experience with autism spectrum disorder and her own career to discuss ways to nurture and turn talents and special interests into paid work shell explore jobs that are particularly suited to people on the autism spectrum. In the last 50 years autism researchers have applied paradigms developed in experimental psychology and neuropsychology and later cognitive neuroscience a. Sacramento diana robins director and professor at the aj drexel autism institute will present on early detection of autism spectrum disorder asd in a primary pediatric care setting the lecture part of the 2019 uc davis mind institutes distinguished lecturer series will be feb 12 at 430 pm in the mind institute auditorium. Autism spectrum disorder affects millions of people all over the world there is a wide range of symptoms that vary in severity doctors diagnose the disorder by observing behavior and communication patterns and peculiarities in development in most cases asd is diagnosed in young children typically less than a year old. Two lectures on autism this first lecture contains some of the material that has been published in 1 gustafsson l inadequate cortical feature maps a neural circuit theory of autism journal of biological psychiatry 1997 42 1138 1147 2 gustafsson l neural network theory and recent neuroanatomical findings indicate that inadequate